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Red Baron 2 *GRAPHICS FIX*

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Cracker         │ N/A               ║║ Publisher     │ Sierra
Protection Type │ Size              ║║ Graphics      │ VGA/SVGA
Supplier        │ DIVINE            ║║ Sound         │ N/A
Rating [1-10]   │ N/A               ║║ # of Disks    │ 8
Date of Release │ 12/14/97          ║║ Disk Size     │ 1.44 Megabytes

Release Notes

I hate rag wars. We hate rag wars. And so do you. Unfortunately, Divine
decided to "flex it's releasing muscle" (chuckle-chuckle) and bad-mouth
RAZOR at the same time. Make sure you have something to back up your
claims, and when you release a game, PLAY IT. First Myth, now Red Baron 2.

This game, in it's original format is fairly decent and has plenty of
animation, music and basic SFX. Divine, in essence, raped it. Removing
music and movies are fine, but NOT when they are integral to game play.
Albeit that the SPA hasn't carved rules in stone regarding what is
considered "functional" in a release (this will be resolved soon), we
at RAZOR believed that common sense would prevail. This is obviously not
the case with Divine.

What was removed from the Divine release? All animations (which actually
act as game graphics on some menus), all of the background graphics
for the menus (What were you thinking?!?) which causes garbled graphics
to appear on some menus, music, speech and all multiplayer functionality
(Why do a 3-disk add-on?).

This kind of thing is completely unacceptable to users that want to play
a PROPERLY ripped game (and believe me, I've got the e-mail to prove it):
some groups have got it into their heads that it is OK to release a
game quickly, even if it is screwed up, then release a "fix" or "addon"
later, just so they can claim credit for a release. It's called "cheating"
boys. It is unfair to users that spend the time downloading the games,
and unfair to other groups that spend the extra time to properly rip
the game.

I quote from the DIVINE.NFO file for Red Baron 2:

"What ever happened to that famous razor cracking force? Ripping the
game was to hard eh guy's?

Clue in, amateurs. RIPPING the game is hard, RAPING it (a talent you have
shown great prowess in) is easy. Yes, the .VOL files were indexed and
compressed. Yes, it was not a simple matter to "rip" these files. But
uncompressing the .VOL files was the ONLY way to get this release under
75 disks (we were in the process of doing just this), without sacrificing
playability and (I can't believe I'm saying this...) MENU GRAPHICS.

'Nuff said. We at RAZOR have taken to time to create a releasable version
of Red Baron 2, but rather than re-release the whole title, we have
created a "patch update" for those of you that were unfortunate enough
to download Divine's release. This will convert Divine's release into
something playble, including 1-frame movies we custom-cut to give you some
idea of what the animations were about, full menu graphics, an updated
multiplayer .EXE (that Divine should have included, if they had bothered
to test Internet play), and various other missing graphics.

To install the update, simply un-RAR the files into your existing Red
Baron 2 directory, overwriting any files you have to. Divine also left
their BARONMP.EXE and some other files read-only, so you may have to
do an ATTRIB -R /S to reset the read-only flag on these files before
un-RARing.

You should then run FIXIT.BAT, which will properly set up your registry
(Divine screwed up their .REG file as well...you need 2 "\"'s on REG_SZ
entries), and will patch the DATA\RBSHELL.VOL file to add the missing
graphics back in.

In short:

unrar x -v -y rb2fix.001 c:\rb2
cd \rb2
fixit.bat

That's it!

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